Well... Yes! but an essential ingredient of that Yes is,

Post #38,703 by Ashton 5/14/02 7:16:08 PM Reply	Well... Yes! but an essential ingredient of that Yes is, the presumption that 'government' MUST always require that a brain be checked at the locker and that humane considerations are not their province [???] What we have.. ain't what we might have -- if 'we' really wanted different; "wanted" meaning: spent as much time ensuring reform and voting accordingly - as we spend deciding amongst the leather seat colors for the UAV (?) "Having the Govt. Protect Us" is clearly the mere rubric for the current Admin's efforts to move radically ---> Right and actualize the dreams of a certain small coterie. "Fish & Game" ought not / need not be a part of any political agenda IMhO, whereas "Home Security" cannot avoid being so. Absence of common sense is odious wherever found, and it ain't the protected reserve of Govmint on any level from Alderman up. Ashton
Post #38,712 by bepatient 5/14/02 8:31:25 PM Reply	All true... ...and more and more examples of gubment-folk checking their brain at the swearing in are coming out. Having the Government Protect Us (tm) is nowhere near monopolized by the current administration, however...but the current administration happens to be able to use that phrase with the blessing of the merkin peeps, unfortunately. And "we" are far outnumbered. You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! _{Laurie Anderson} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #38,745 by Ashton 5/15/02 3:28:42 AM Reply	Ain't it da trooth.. ain't it da trooth Where's Bert Lahr (and WC Fields & Mencken & Twain & de Tocqueville), when we need them a lot ??? Genes die out? PCBs, Tee Vee or a lust for UAVs do it? I can handle a diversity of cockamamie ideas all around .. but it's hard to rationalize away such a huge flock of grazing sheep, unnoticing and uncaring that they just ate their meadow bare and sold the remaining clay to a high bidder .. er, like [link\|http://www.aardman.com/\|Chicken Run] - wherein a sentient chicken population is oppressed by Homo-Saponicus. Not sure how these two angles intersect - but it's in there somewhere. Orthogonally. Cheers, Ashton who is sure glad that this is all just a play; if it were more serious than that...

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